Alexander P. Stewart

Alexander Peter Stewart (2 October 1821-30 August 1908) was a Lieutenant General of the Confederate States Army.

Biography
Stewart was born in Rogersville, Tennessee, graduating from West Point 12th of 56 cadets 1842. On 31 May 1845 he resigned his rank of Second Lieutenant in the US Artillery to become experimental philosophy and mathematics teacher at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. At the start of the American Civil War he was a Major in the Tennessee state militia's artillery, and decided to side with the Confederate States, despite his anti-secessionist beliefs. Stewart served under Leonidas Polk in the 1863 Tullahoma Campaign and the Atlanta Campaign, taking over from Polk as commander of the 3rd Corps of the Army of Tennessee when Polk was killed in the Battle of Pine Mountain on 14 June 1864. On 26 April 1865, having been forced back to North Carolina by William T. Sherman, Stewart surrendered his army. He became an insurance executive, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, and Commissioner of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. He served in this post until his death in 1908.